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Message-ID: <ed3971f1-8464-4406-bae2-eff914c9c2fc@email.android.com> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:19:21 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> To: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com> CC: "Lee, Chun-Yi" <joeyli.kernel@...il.com>, "matt.fleming@...el.com" <matt.fleming@...el.com>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-efi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-efi@...r.kernel.org>, "Lee, Chun-Yi" <jlee@...e.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...e.com>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] rtc-efi: register rtc-efi device when EFI enabled Again, we could hack a simulator and try it. Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@...ula.com> wrote: >On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 16:42 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> On 12/28/2012 03:39 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 15:32 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> >> No, that is explicitly the ordering that is excludable. >> > >> > Windows uses the UEFI time functions. The fact that they fail for >us on >> > a bunch of systems is just another symptom of our general failure >to >> > accurately mimic Windows when making runtime calls, and we should >just >> > make sure that that gets fixed rather than layering more >workarounds on >> > top. It's an embarrassment that we're still unable to deal with >> > platforms that work fine with another OS. >> > >> >> Are they using them in preference to ACPI? This seems a bit odd, >since >> one can presume that the ACPI functions were added at Microsoft's >request... > >In preference to the ACPI RTC, I haven't yet had an ACPI 5.0 TAD device >to test in comparison. -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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